My First Victorinox Animal Edition – Hit or Miss?

Victorinox has just released a new children’s pocket knife: The My First Victorinox Animal Edition.

We think the My First Victorinox is a great first pocket knife. It’s not overcomplicated and the rounded blade helps prevent accidents.

However, for very young kids, they should always be supervised, and even then, expect a few cuts.

Your child might be Scouts age before they can use it unsupervised, and even then, the Scouts have rules for pocket knives.

This set also comes with a neck lanyard and a colouring book.

As well as jungle animals, there’s also a dolphin and rabbit set.

The colouring book and graphics would not appeal to Scout’s age kids. Victorinox is appealing to a much younger audience. Perhaps, a very young audience.

Plus, the photo at the top with the whittling is misleading, as you cannot make those with the My First Victorinox set as you don’t have a smaller blade with a point to make the eyes and mouth.

As I said before, we think the My First Victorinox is an excellent kid’s pocket knife, but have they missed the mark on this?

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Gav Grayston Contributor

Father to 3 kids, who loves getting out and about (hiking, running, camping, cycling, canoeing...) Co-founded Get Out With The Kids to help other parents enjoy the outdoors with their family.